The Baboons of Hada (eBook, ePUB) - Ormsby, Eric
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The Baboons of Hada introduces thirty years of Eric Ormsby's precise and generous poetry. Opening with an exuberant bestiary of spiders and starfish, penguins, snakes and contemplative baboons, the collection moves on to explore a world of intricate wonders and memories: the grandeur of noses, the mayonnaise tornado whipped up by a kitchen whisk, the gossip gravediggers whisper to the dead. An American childhood and kinships are evoked with loving particularity, alongside a flamboyant caliph, Lazarus and his disenchanted wife, and the great medieval Arab poet al-Mutanabbi writing in exile…mehr

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The Baboons of Hada introduces thirty years of Eric Ormsby's precise and generous poetry. Opening with an exuberant bestiary of spiders and starfish, penguins, snakes and contemplative baboons, the collection moves on to explore a world of intricate wonders and memories: the grandeur of noses, the mayonnaise tornado whipped up by a kitchen whisk, the gossip gravediggers whisper to the dead. An American childhood and kinships are evoked with loving particularity, alongside a flamboyant caliph, Lazarus and his disenchanted wife, and the great medieval Arab poet al-Mutanabbi writing in exile lines that reverberate across all the empty places' of the world.

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Autorenporträt
Eric Ormsby is the senior research associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies and a former professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. His poetry has appeared in most of the major journals in Canada, England, and the U.S., including the New Yorker, the New Republic, Paris Review, Descant, and Parnassus. His first collection, Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems, won the QSPELL Poetry Prize, and Time's Covenant.